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Quick Replies on the Page Owner


Messenger Platform introduced Quick Replies feature, that the User can tap to answer Page Owner's request instead of typing. However, I can make it work from the User view only. Will it work from Page Owner's view, like suggestion?

Flow may be:

1. User ask Page a question
2. Bot suggest some <quick replies> based on that question (maybe use NLP)
3. Page Owner can tap <quick replies> to reply

I may call this "semi-auto reply bot". For example, in the demo here, the shop owner may double checked the response and tap to send.


Solution

  • No, there is not a direct way to do this. Theoretically you could basically have a customer-facing bot and a business-owner-facing bot, and then orchestrate the a flow something like this:

    1. user messages user-facing bot
    2. bot forwards the message to business in business-owner-facing bot with quick replies
    3. business owner selects a quick reply
    4. user-facing bot replies with the text of the quick reply.

    You'd want to be careful of privacy concerns tho since the user's message is being forwarded on.